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Peculiar Parents
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Welcome to the charmingly funny and perfectly peculiar world of Aussie animal mums and dads and their awesome kids. Peculiar Parents explores 60 Australian native animals, focusing in particular on all things family, including their courting practices, gestation periods, births and the raising of their young....
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Format: Hardback
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Peculiar Parents
Welcome to the charmingly funny and perfectly peculiar world of Aussie animal mums and dads and their awesome kids.
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Welcome to the charmingly funny and perfectly peculiar world of Aussie animal mums and dads and their awesome kids.
Peculiar Parents explores 60 Australian native animals, focusing in particular on all things family, including their courting practices, gestation periods, births and the raising of their young.
Discover the weird and wonderful, the cute and cuddly—even the slimy and ugly! You will find parrots that play the drums and cuttlefish that can change the colour of their skin to attract a mate, as well as dancing spiders, kissing lizards, parading pelicans, plonking pobblebonks and many more.
Presented through fascinating, funny and amazing facts with an impactful family photo wall design, this book is perfect for young readers aged 6 to 12.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781922507822
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 July 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: National Library of Australia
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Ingrid Bartkowiak
DIMENSIONS
Width: 256.0mm
Height: 300.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 64
About the Author
Dr Stephanie Owen Reeder is the author of over 25 books for children and adults. She has worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian, a book editor, a university lecturer and a Hansard Editor at Federal Parliament. Stephanie has won many awards, including the CBCA Book of the Year Award and the NSW Premier's History Award. In 2019, Stephanie was presented with the CBCA Laurie Copping Award for Distinguished Service to Children's Literature. Her latest children's books include the Heritage Heroes compilation Courageous Kids and Their Amazing Adventures and the non-fiction picture book Australia's Wild Weird Wonderful Weather.
Based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Ingrid Bartkowiak is an artist and illustrator who works primarily in watercolour. Her hand-painted work features native flora, fauna and fungi. Ingrid has a fascination with all things small and intricate, from tufts of moss on a footpath to the fungi sprouting from a wombat dropping. Ingrid has worked across a diverse array of projects, including picture book illustration, murals, packaging designs and even pet portraits.
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